Flag Skills, Camper should show proficiency in the following skills:
Elite
- Flag – Camper should show proficiency in the following skills:
- All basic holds and angles achieved with additional upper and lower body responsibility
- Drop spins on both hands achieved with additional lower body responsibility
- Speed spins (peggy or double fast) on both hands
- Basic tosses in the vertical plane (Singles, doubles, pop toss, parallel) with ability to incorporate body responsibility under the tosses
- Flat tosses from a variety of positions on the pole and silk out of both hands
- Angle tosses from a variety of positions on the pole and silk
- Awareness of flat and angle planes in relationship to the body
- Incorporation of higher level movement underneath technique and choreography
- Continuously incorporates expressive/performance qualities throughout choreography
- **Elite campers should have spent at least 3 seasons spinning flag**
Advanced
- All basic holds and angles achieved with additional upper and lower body responsibility
- Drop spins on both hands achieved with additional lower body responsibility
- Speed spins (peggy or double fast) on both hands
- Basic tosses in the vertical plane (Singles, doubles, pop toss, parallel) with ability to incorporate basic body responsibility under the tosses.
- Flat tosses from a variety of positions on the pole and silk out of both hands
- Angle tosses from a variety of positions on the pole and silk
- Awareness of flat and angle planes in relationship to the body
- Incorporation of movement underneath technique and choreography
- Intermittently incorporate expressive/performance qualities in choreography
- **Advanced flag campers should have spent at least 2 seasons spinning flag**
Intermediate
- All basic holds and angles
- Drop spins on both hands
- Speed spins (peggy or double fast)
- Basic tosses in the vertical plane (Singles, doubles, pop toss, parallel)A basic angle toss
- Awareness of flat and angle planes in relationship to the body
- Incorporation of basic movement underneath technique and choreography
- Beginning to incorporate expressive/performance qualities in choreography
- **There is no audition for the intermediate track. **
Sabre/Rifle Skills, Camper should show proficiency in the following skills:
Elite
- Consecutive basic spins on both right and left hands achieved with additional upper and lower body responsibility
- All basic holds and angles achieved with additional upper and lower body responsibility
- Flourish exercises on both right and left hands All basic holds and angles achieved with additional upper and lower body responsibility
- Solid tosses (double, triple, quad, five, six), with movement demands under the toss
- Ability to throw higher tosses and tosses from non-traditional places on the equipment (from the butt, or tip)and ability to catch tosses in non-traditional catch positions
- Solid angle and parallel tosses from a variety of positions and release points, with movement demands under the toss
- Awareness of flat and angle planes in relationship to the body
- Incorporation of higher level movement underneath technique and choreography
- Continuously incorporate expressive/performance qualities throughout choreography
- **Elite campers should have spent at least 2 seasons spinning weapon**
- **Elite campers will need to demonstrate skills on ALL THREE pieces of equipment. Performance qualities and movement skills are essential underneath all equipment repertoire.
- **Auditions will be held Monday morning of camp. Campers wishing to be placed in the Elite Track should learn the Elite Track choreography. This can be found through the link on the Color Guard Track page at camp.musicforall.org Additional demonstration of the skills listed above may be requested during the audition.**
Advanced
- Consecutive basic spins on both right and left hands achieved with additional lower body responsibility
- All basic holds and angles achieved with additional and lower body responsibility
- Flourish exercises on both right and left hands achieved with additional lower body responsibility
- Solid tosses (double, triple, quad)
- Ability to throw fives and sixes and tosses from non-traditional places on the equipment (from the butt, or tip)and ability to catch tosses in non-traditional catch positions
- Solid angle and parallel tosses from a variety of positions and release points
- Awareness of flat and angle planes in relationship to the body
- Incorporation of movement underneath technique and choreography
- Intermittently incorporate expressive/performance qualities in choreography
- **Advanced weapon campers should have spent at least 1season spinning weapon**
- **Advanced weapon campers can choose to focus on one weapon of their choice, or spin both weapons during the week, as long as they can demonstrate advanced skills on both weapons**
- **Auditions will be held Monday morning of camp. Campers wishing to be placed in the Advanced Track should be ready to demonstrate the skills listed above on the piece(s) of equipment they want to spin for the week.**
Intermediate
- Basic spins on both right and left hands
- Flourish exercises on both right and left hands
- Toss technique (double, triple, quad)
- Basic angle and parallel tosses
- Awareness of flat and angle planes in relationship to the body
- Incorporation of basic movement underneath technique and choreography
- Beginning to incorporate expressive/performance qualities in choreography
- **There is no audition for the intermediate track.**